They found some old pieces that I'd forgotten, underneath things, and altogether the man paid Willie nine dollars and eighty-five cents.
The way he talked at dinner, I could come pretty near believing he hasn't any more brains LEFT than to get married on nine dollars and eighty-five cents!
During the day some twenty women emigrants, who were obliged to leave the car, taking refuge there from the mud and rain, were charged twenty-five cents (1s.
I sold the fifty packages at five cents each, and that brought me in two dollars and a half.
This in a country where wages sometimes fall as low as five cents a day!
He congratulated himself upon being still the possessor of twenty-five cents in silver.
Then I had but twenty-five cents; now I have a dollar.
He had but twenty-five cents in good money about him, and that he had just picked up by the merest chance.
And it had so happened, a few years before, for the accommodation of some young men of his acquaintance that he had invested rather generously in Grantham mining stock at twenty-five cents a share, and had promptly forgotten the transaction.
But it proved that our combined resources only amounted to a dollar and seventy-five cents.
How was I to tell them that in answer to my prayers for twenty-five cents, God had deemed five all that was good for me?
You can go and have your two glasses of beer all the same; and you have made yourself a present of five cents worth of postage-stamps into the bargain.
Most of them were lodgers and slept there for "five cents a spot.
Illustration: Lodgers at Five Cents a Spot] I had at last an ally in the fight with the Bend.
I had one good dinner anyhow, for when I got through there was only twenty-five cents left of the dollar I borrowed upon my last article of "dress.
Nobody blamed me, for I had sold according to orders; but instead of $450 which I had figured out as my commission, I got seventy-five cents.
He further stated that acting for the re-insuring company, he would not follow the California for more than sixty-five cents on the dollar.
I showed him the photograph and then stated that we should be compelled to penalize him to the extent of thirty-five cents on the dollar.
Finally, the roll call came to ascertain the sense of the meeting - seventy-five cents or one dollar.
Miss Horr received twenty-five cents a week for each pupil, and opened her school with prayer; after which came a chapter of the Bible, with explanations, and the rules of conduct.
When the pressure became very hard and finances were at their lowest ebb, it was offered at any price--at five cents an acre, sometimes.
The blue-jeans coat was ornamented with brass buttons and cost one dollar and twenty-five cents a yard, a high price for that locality and time.
Over the Chicago Wheat Pit the hand of the great indicator stood at seventy-five cents.
But I wanted an umbrella, and I gave the driver seventy-five cents.
The fluctuations were no longer by fractions of a cent, but by ten cents, fifteen cents twenty-five cents at a time.
No wonder; they were made fully equal to those for which regular shirt-makers receive from seventy-five cents to a dollar a piece.
But twenty-five cents is very little for a hard day's work.
On the day after I formed this resolution I met, in my walks about the city for the purpose, with the room where you found me, for which I paid seventy-five cents a week.
For the little room that Lizzy Glenn occupied including fire, she paid seventy-five cents a week.
Then three dollars and thirty-five cents will be my right change," said the lady, placing a small gold coin on the counter.
The article came to six dollars and sixty-five cents, I believe?
Of a piece of beef at twenty-five cents a pound, fifty cents' worth is often lost in bone, fat, and burnt skin.
For example: Take an old tin pan condemned to the retired list by reason of holes in the bottom, get twenty-five cents' worth of green paint for this and other purposes, and paint it.
The captain was very kind to me and when I left him, gave me twenty-five cents, and some good advice.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "five cents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
